It might be possible to crack the protection but Google should still not leave the barn door open and support piracy. If they do then they will kill the commercial side of the App Store or will at least get sued by App Store developers: "We wrote this cool app, but Google just made it easy for pirates".

eg. Improved headphone experience. Fixes a bug or improves an existing feature, but is not a new feature.

But hell, 36 specific features more in an overloaded interface does not improve ease of use for most customers.

MS needs people that can understand how to help foreigners fill out H1B Visas.

No point in getting skilled up in regular skills if they're just going to replace you with cheaper emplyees later.

The clerk or owner at the store where underage kids buy beer does not really care whether they are under age or not. All he cares about is whether they can show ID so he doesn't get into trouble.

Pretty much same deal in the porn industry. All the owner really cares about is that the model produces enough ID that he can use the model without getting arrested.

The legal system probably also doesn't really care that much, so long as they can say that they've done their bit to pacify the puritans.

That condensed on the metal parts of the rover. Assuming of course that those globs are water and not Martian spit or something else.

It is an almost trivial exercise to convert one format to another.

What is a lot harder is knowing how the data sets were measured and whether it is valid to combine them with data sets measured in other ways.

At least half the Global Warming bun-fight is about the validity of comparison between different data sets and the same goes for pretty much any non-trivial data sets.

If she really wants the cat to be doing a random act then she needs to leave the mouse clicking apparatus there the whole time allowing the cats to perform other random acts such as clicking the mouse while she's trying to drive Photoshop.

I bet she's disabling the device at other times making it not-so-random.

I agree with your main points, but it is a lot easier to be all idealistic when your kid is only 5. Things are going to change for you quite a bit by the time she's 14 and you will find those nice black and white points of view will all turn into shades of gray.

A teacher will get ito all kinds of shit if (s)he puts his/her hand into a kid's pants - for any reason. Far better to get law enforcement to do this.

Hopefully this will send a message to the stroppy teen.

Spelling Nazi getting feathers out of place over bailing vs baling.

That there is a Wikipedia article on baling wire.

Such a long time to wait...

Apart from different connectors, different models of phone also need different voltages and current ratings. I have 3 Nokias that don't interoperate with each other's chargers.

Same deal here. The connector isn't enough. There has to be standardised voltages and currents to make the scheme work.

The light is still 2D, so going vertical doesn't make any more. If you can see the sun from where you live, then that is sunlight that is not being farmed.

It is very unlikely to be self sufficient because the modern American diet is so inefficient, particularly feedlot meat production which requires around an acre of grain/corn/soy raising to feed an American with meat.

Staying in orbit requires a the right velocity. The results of a collision will have different velocities and some of that will de-orbit.

Who the hell is supporting this? Dell, IBM, Microsoft... and by extension their customers (you and me).

Blaming this on the Chinese while still exploiting things is bullshit.

Health care loves accountability and professional liability insurance etc. The GPL very definitely goes against that with: "THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, ...."

If a patient dies while the software is running then the health provider IT manager will get it in the neck.

Sure, you could start with GPL and add a testing service/wrapper to that but unless there is a good way to insulate the IT manager from the risk then this just won't happen.